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...Many farmers, however, are piqued with PIK. They cite poor administration, the possibility of getting paid with inferior grain and a timetable that sometimes forces farmers to sell at deflated prices. "The biggest concern I have is the quality of corn they are shipping in," says Alabama Farmer Bill Sanders. "Some of it is as much as two or three years old. I may have to buy hogs...
Texas rice farmers will receive medium-grain California rice for their PIK entitlements because there is not enough of the more marketable long-grain variety to go around. Worse, the shipments will arrive at the beginning of August when the market is flooded with rice. Cash-hungry farmers will have to sell at the lowest price of the season. "These old boys need greenbacks right away," says Rice Farmer Wayne Wilber. "They won't get nearly as much as they would if they got their entitlements later in the season...
...short term, the Administration is pushing Congress to freeze "target prices" (the prices that determine the amount of a farmer's cash subsidy) for grain and to lower dairy price supports. Until Congress agrees, Block is delaying the announcement of the specifics of the 1984 PIK program for wheat. In the meantime, PIK appears to be the only game in town. "This miserable PIK program is designed to keep the poor buggers in farming alive," says Scott Hanson, administrator of the Washington Wheat Commission in Spokane. "Until someone comes up with a better idea, we're stuck with...
...discovered that a faulty storage tank had discharged some 13,000 gal. of a mildly carcinogenic solvent called TCA into the underground water supply. A few weeks later, Intel announced that a concrete vault had leaked, and that traces of a strong carcinogen, TCE, had turned up in a farmer's well near by. Fairchild has spent $10 million cleaning up its spill, and the company steadfastly maintains that no link between its leak and any specific maladies has been established...
...Times, which is the sole newspaper in Waitsburg (pop. 1,035), located in southeastern Washington. Townsfolk are neither impressed nor worried by the unusual situation. Says Banker Ken Miller: "It's easy for Tom. His newspaper is only two doors down from town hall." Explains Wheat Farmer Howard Smith: "It was his turn to be mayor...